tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704425219270767105.post6465652233393125571..comments2009-07-05T21:21:43.469+02:00Susie Malletthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05134263396254528737noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704425219270767105.post-84590157766757949202009-07-05T21:21:43.469+02:002009-07-05T21:21:43.469+02:00Norman introduces a very interesting angle on the problem.<br /><br />We have no idea at all about what Andras Peto thought to be &#39;the role of the conductor&#39;.<br /><br />Remember, he died in 1967. I have to admit to not knowing when the word &#39;konduktor&#39; was first introduced, or why, but it seems likely that for quite some time after AP began his work in Budapest he managed without such a word (and whatever it nowadays implies).<br /><br />For some of this time anyway (I guess that I am speaking mainly about the fifties but I would love to have starting and finishing dates) he employed &#39;kezelonok&#39;, from the Hungarian words &#39;kez&#39;, meaning hand, and &#39;nok&#39;, meaning women. <br /><br />Translate this as &#39;handling women&#39; or, of you think that this better reflects AP&#39;s personal style: &#39;handmaidens&#39;.<br /><br />I do not know whether &#39;conductors&#39; came in only later, when Maria Hari created the formal, recognised training.<br /><br />I strongly suspect that during the years up until the internationalisation of Conductive Education the role of he conductor experience no little development in Hungary. Whatever the conductor&#39;s role in that country, however, and there are many roles there too an increasingly diversifying and desperate economy, what has happened to conductors&#39; roles around the world is altogether more role-stretching and fragmentalising. <br /><br />I challenge anyone to specify what &#39;the conductor&#39;s role&#39; now is, either theoretically or empirically.<br /><br />This matters not, since &#39;conductors&#39; as most of us have seen them are a secondary phenomenon. The primary phenomenon is &#39;conduction&#39;, a process that surely can change little over time or space, in whatever context it is implemented. <br /><br />Conductors are players in this process but not necesarily the only ones. Their role towards conduction can vary, for good or for ill, acording to circumstances.<br /><br />A few days ago, on Conductive World, I wondered whether the ghost in your computer might be that of one one of the late greats of Conductive Education. It was AP particularly whom I had in mind. <br /><br />However little we know about him, published memoires of those who did experience his company all those years ago do suggest that he could take some delight in human predicaments.<br /><br />Maybe he is laughing as some of the japes and scrapes of his handamaidens.Andrewhttp://www.conductive-world.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704425219270767105.post-81385721422045240112009-07-05T10:24:16.805+02:002009-07-05T10:24:16.805+02:00Andrew points out that this aphorism captures &quot;nothing about creating new potential in the child&quot;. Also, it omits the role of the Conductor.Normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02856508972649642743noreply@blogger.com